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Priscilla (Mayo) Simmons (1748 - abt. 1789)

Priscilla Simmons formerly Mayo
Born in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Baymap
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Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 40 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotiamap [uncertain]
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Biography

Priscilla was born in 1748 at Chatham Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Judah Mayo and Mary Hamilton Mayo. She married Eleaser Simmons on April 2, 1767 at Chatham.[1] [2] [3]. She is the daughter of Judah Mayo and Mary Hamilton of Chatham, Massachusetts[4]

On April 2, 1767, she married Eleazar Simmons, also of Chatham, who was one of the proprietors of Liverpool, Nova Scotia at the time of their marriage[3] [4] [5].

  • Note that her husband's name was misspelled Ebenezer on the list of proprietors, which causes confusion in genealogy. All the other records consistently refer to him as Eleazar.

Their children were all born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia including:

  1. Benjamin, born March 25, 1768[3], who married Rebecca Harrington, daughter of Thomas Harrington and Mary Gardner[6]
  2. Judah Mayo Simmons, born June 26, 1770[3], who married Abigail Wood[7] [6]
  3. Priscilla, born September 20, 1772, who fell into a fire and died of her burns February 25, 1773[3] [6]
  4. Priscilla, born February 9, 1774[3]
  5. Deborah, born April 25, 1776[3], who married William Harrington[6]
  6. Perthina, born April 3, 1779, who died April 20, 1779[3]
  7. Perthina, born August 9, 1780[3]
  8. Eleazar, who worked for Simeon Perkinsr[6]
  9. Lucy, who married Eldad Nickerson, the son of James and Hannah (Dexter) Nickerson[6]

The family was mentioned in various places in Simeon Perkins Diary, starting with the death of Priscilla in 1772, and the final reference was an 1811 comment on Judah Simmons debts[6].

Sources

  1. See Source NGS Quarterly v. 64 p. 111
  2. White, Elizabeth Person, Nova Scotia Settlers from Chatham, Mass. 1750 - 1769, National Genealogical Society Quarterly Vol. 64, June 1974, p 111.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Vital Records of Liverpool, NS, page 59 found in Vol 126, page 169 of Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880 Stephen Hopkins, volume 6, page 333. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-<2015>.
  5. Chatham Mass Vital Records, page 146 found in Chatham V1, page 80 of the Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 The Diaries of Simeon Perkins, 1766-1780 (volume I) The Publications of the Champlain Society, Volume 29; Author: Simeon Perkins; Editor: Harold A. Innis; Published: 2013
  7. "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5D-H3X : 5 December 2014), Judah Mayo Simmons and Abigail Woods, 07 Dec 1792; citing Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia; FHL microfilm 837,883
  • Wilfred Vasile, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Wilfred and others.


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Mayo-1125 and Mayo-603 appear to represent the same person because: Same person, same spouse etc. Duplicate may have been created due to a mis-spelling of her spouse's name in a key source. See note on Mayo-603.

Merge also proposed for duplicate spouses

posted by Laurie Giffin

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